FILM · 2015 · USA
Wild Card
12 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
Jason Statham wanted to stay lean for the role and followed a diet consisting only of spinach and brown rice.
- #002
Director Simon West said that Jason Statham developed the project himself, "maybe over five years."
- #003
Nick drives a 1969 Ford Torino GT.
- #004
This is Jason Statham's third collaboration with director Simon West; they had previously worked together on The Mechanic (2011) and The Expendables 2 (2012).
- #005
It is the first film based on a William Goldman screenplay in eleven years.
- #006
This is a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds film Heat (1986). Jason Statham and Reynolds had appeared together in In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007).
- #007
At one point Brian De Palma was set to direct before Simon West took over.
- #008
Similar to Spy, released around the same time, Jason Statham lists a long series of seemingly impossible skills and activities he has done or could do. The only difference is that in Wild Card he also admits to lying a great deal!
- #009
Hotshot blackjack dealer D'Arcy Allen worked as a blackjack dealer in Canada while attending university. Wanting to take a break from school, he went to Las Vegas in the 1980s and applied to work at the Golden Gate casino, but was thrown out of the casino because he was not of legal gambling age.
- #010
It is Greice Santo's debut.
- #011
Angarano and Ventimiglia play the Pearson brothers Nick and Jack, respectively, in the series This is Us.
- #012
Director Simon West cut his teeth on pop videos and commercials.
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